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Page last updated
Wed 06 Mar 2024

The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

This page reports the specimens in the MUSSELpdb and provides a map if geocodes are known. The taxonomic history reports the record of different names and combinations that have been applied to this species (and its synonyms) since 2007.

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Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Hyriinae | Castaliini | Castalia

species Castalia orinocensis Morrison, 1943: specimens
     1 nominal species

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Castalia orinocensisGraf & Cummings (2007), Lasso et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), Pereira et al. (2014), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Range: Orinoco River, Colombia and Venezuela.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
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Colombia

specimen
USNM_522000

Maipures, Orinoco R., Colombia

specimen
ANSP_178113

Orinoco River, Maipures, Colombia

specimen
MCZ_167992

Rio Orinoco, Maipures, Colombia

Page updated: 16:27:08 Wed 06 Mar 2024

 
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